Thursday, September 17, 2009

Equities Techinical Writer in New York, NY

Thursday, September 17, 2009
A well known financial company based out of New York City is looking for a Technical Writer with Cash Equities. Equities Technical Writer Position Position Summary The Technical Writer has the primary responsibility to document and maintain updates to the Cash Equities production environment. Additionally provide documentation for the support procedures Run Books' that are needed to operate the environment. This position will also support the creation of weekly senior management communication presentations based on input from Program Managers, Project Managers and team leads. Business coverage and Location This position will cover technical analysis for the Cash Equities production environment in both North America & Europe. Job Responsibilities . Work closely with project managers, release management and production support users to document changes to the existing production enviroment . Verify and validate the production environments and secure sign off from the appropriate stakeholders . Work with project managers, team leads, senior management to create/update weekly communication presentations based on input from these groups. Experience: General Experience Requirements . Minimum of 2 years experience as a Technical Writer supporting a Cash Equities business . Equities market knowledge and a strong familiarity with trading, trading workflows . Production Support including exposure to live environments and support procedures. . Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills (writing sample required for onsite interviews) . Proven usage of standard writing/communication tools e.g. Visio, Power Point , Word & Excel Specific Business/Technical Experience . Use of FIX as a standard message protocol . iSeries knowledge would be a nice to have' PLEASE EMAIL RESUME IN MS WORD WITH SHORT SYNOPSIS OF MATCHING SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE. Interested candidates please contact Pedro Garcia at pedro(dot)garcia(at)ajilon(dot)com Adecco / Ajilon is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here